Vladimir Vasilyevich Shcherbitsky
Volodymyr Shcherbytsky ( Russian Владимир Васильевич Щербицкий , Ukrainian Володимир Васильович Щербицький Volodymyr Wassyljowytsch Schtscherbyzkyj * 17th February 1918 in Werchnjednjeprowsk , yekaterinoslav governorate , now Dnipropetrovsk Oblast , † 17 February 1990 in Kiev ) was a Soviet and Ukrainian politician and from 1961 to 1963 and from 1965 to 1972 Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR .
Life
Education and advancement
Shcherbitzky was an engineering graduate - like many members of the Soviet nomenklatura - before he made a career in politics as a member of the CPSU . In 1948, when he was only 30 years old, under Leonid Brezhnev (1947–1950) he became the party's second secretary in the Ukrainian Dnepropetrovsk Oblast . Since that time, the amicable relationship between these two political figures has existed.
Ukrainian Prime Minister
From 1961 to 1963 he was chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR. From this post he rose from 1961 to 1963 as a candidate for the Politburo . As part of a general renewal effort, he lost his offices in 1963 - although young in years - and was demoted to a member of the Central Committee through Khrushchev's influence . Shcherbitsky became the First Secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk City Party in 1963 , certainly a lower position than before.
From 1965 to 1972 - after the fall of Khrushchev, in which he participated - Brezhnev made him prime minister of the Ukrainian SSR again and from 1965 to 1971 also a candidate for the Politburo .
In the centers of power
In 1971 Shcherbitsky rose to the highest political body of the USSR, he became a full member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) from April 9, 1971 to September 20, 1989. From 1972 to 1989 he was also as Successor to Schelest First Secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine . In Ukraine, the Schelest confidants lost their posts. The attempts at Ukrainian independence were suppressed.
" He led " - as Gorbachev recalled - " the Republic (Ukraine) with a sure hand ." Around 1978 he was also named as a possible successor to Brezhnev as General Secretary of the party; Yuri Andropov would later prevail. In 1987 he still supported Gorbachev's first reform approaches; However, from 1989 onwards he no longer followed this increasing path of change and resigned from the Politburo and his offices in Ukraine. He died in Kiev in 1990 and was buried in the Baikowe Cemetery.
Honors
- Hero of Socialist Labor (twice)
- Lenin Prize
- Order of Lenin (seven times)
- Order of the October Revolution (twice)
- Order of the Great Patriotic War
literature
- Michel Tatu: Power and Powerlessness in the Kremlin , Ullstein, 1967
- Merle Fainsod : How Russia is governed ; Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1965
- Mikhail Gorbachev : Memories , Settlers, Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-88680-524-7
Web links
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| SURNAME | Scherbitzki, Vladimir Vasilyevich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shcherbytsky, Volodymyr; Щербицький, Володимир Васильович (Ukrainian); Щербицкий, Владимир Васильевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian-Soviet politician, member of the Politburo of the CPSU |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 17, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Verkhnyedneprovsk , Yekaterinoslav Governorate |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th February 1990 |
| Place of death | Kiev |